Happy Birthday Conrad Bain-89 David Brenner-76 John Schuck-72 Alice Cooper-64 Oscar De La Hoya-39 ; 1913 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama
February 3
Happy Birthday Fran Tarkenton-72 Blythe Danner-69 Morgan Fairchild-62 Nathan Lane-56 Michele Greene-50 ; Today 1913 The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.
February 2
Happy Birthday Tom Smothers-75 Graham Nash-70 RIP Farrah Fawcett(1947-2009) Brent Spiner-63 Shakira Ripoll-35 ; 1653 New Amsterdam – now New York City – was incorporated.
February 1
Happy Birthday Garrett Morris-75 Sherman Hemsley-74 Lisa Marie Presley-44 Michael C. Hall-41 ; 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.
January 31
Happy Birthday Carol Channing-91 Philip Glass-75 Harry Casey(KC)-61 John Lydon-56 Anthony LaPaglia-53 Minnie Driver-42 Justin Timberlake-31 Joel Courtney-16 , RIP Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) ; 1949 The first TV daytime soap opera, “These Are My Children,” was broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
January 30
Happy Birthday Gene Hackman-82 Vanessa Redgrave-75 Phil Collins-61 Charles S. Dutton-61 Jody Watley-53 Christian Bale-38 ; 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
January 29
Happy Birthday Tom Selleck-67 Ann Jillian-62 Oprah Winfrey-58 Greg Louganis-52 Nicholas Turturro-50 Heather Graham-42 Sara Gilbert-37 ; 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
January 28
Happy Birthday James Cromwell-72 Nick Mason-67 Mikhail Baryshnikov-64 Mimi Rogers-56 Keith Olbermann-53 Bridget Fonda-48 Alan Cumming-47 ; 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (lightbulb)
USA Patent Document
January 27
Happy Birthday James Cromwell-72 Nick Mason-67 Mikhail Baryshnikov-64 Mimi Rogers-56 Keith Olbermann-53 Bridget Fonda-48 Alan Cumming-47 ; 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp (lightbulb)
http://www.google.com/patents/US223898?printsec=description#v=onepage&q&f=false
January 26
Happy Birthday Bob Uecker-77 Scott Glenn-73 Eddie Van Halen-57 Ellen DeGeneres-54 Wayne Gretzky-51 ; 1788 The first European settlers in Australia landed in present-day Sydney.